David Hubbard wrote:
> I remember back in the day of old hardware and operating
> systems we'd intentionally avoid using .255 IP addresses
> for anything even when the netmask on our side would have
> made it fine, so I just thought I'd try it out for kicks
> today. From two of four ISP's it worked fine, from Verizon
> FIOS and Road Runner commercial, it didn't. So I guess
> that old problem still lingers?
The TCP/IP stack in Windows XP is broken in this regard, possibly in
Vista as well, though I've yet to have the displeasure of finding out. I
have a router with a .255 loopback IP on it. My Windows XP hosts cannot
SSH to it. The specific error that Putty throws is "Network error:
Cannot assign requested address".
At least if I ever need to completely protect a device from access by
Windows users, I have a good option :)
Mike